Facebook revenue growth due to ads

Facebook’s strong mobile advertising business helped the social network report positive results for the fourth quarter of 2014. Revenue was up 49% to $3.85 billion, as the company’s profit grew by 34% to $701 million.

Facebook started selling mobile ads in 2012. In each of the past seven quarters, mobile ads accounted for more then 90% of Facebook’s revenue growth. In the past three months, mobile advertising sales amounted to almost $2.5 billion.

Having doubled since the previous year’s holiday quarter, mobile ad revenue now accounts for more than two thirds of Facebook’s advertising revenue and 64% of total revenue.

Facebook reported a net profit of $2.94 billion on $12.47 billion in revenue for 2014.

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